ALL I WANTED WAS RAILS NEW: A 50-step saga in which I have two things: 1. an idea for an web app 2. a laptop that hasn't seen rails development since 2016 >_<pic.twitter.com/4L2fNi4Q2c
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Something that might actually help is if we had officially blessed, up to date STATICALLY LINKED binaries for the major platforms. Both Ruby itself AND all gems with native extensions. But that's a huge ecosystem shift.
I still can’t get over that the OS that most Rubyists use routinely cannot cleanly build Ruby
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And, conversely, the OS that most Rubyists take a regular dump on has the One Click Installer: https://rubyinstaller.org/ HAHAHA SCREW YOU WINDOWS DORKS. Oh. Oh wait. You're not listening because you're too busy working on actual work
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I wish it was that easy. Unfortunately the one-click can't account for the fact that having a set of gems that are all currently working on Windows (it's amazing the ways people break this) is like having holes line up in 32 different slices of swiss cheese.
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I recently went through a lengthy period of determining if it was truly viable to do native Windows Rails dev, and came to the conclusion that WSL is the only way to go. Maintainers re-break their gems/tools on windows at an astonishing rate.
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Is that due to not enough folks running CI on Windows for their gems, do you think?
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The “CI” that you’d need to run would be more complex than a given build - I think it would require “install Ruby from zero, then build a rails app and make sure it worked. I don’t think ANYONE is doing that on any platform.
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